I'm very interested in this.. I just happen to have a very old computer

Pentium 1
32mb of ram
2gb hd

I wonder will it enough for IP-Cop?
I'm a noob in this.

Great!! will try it in my free time and let you all noe.. really interested in this..it's like an eye opener..

syyang85: will try it when i got a hold on my old pc.. The problem is the old pc is in my home town!! I'll go back only by this month end.. Maybe this weekend will try on vmware 1st.. Anyway thank for the info..


BTW, is it possible to wifi with this DIY router? Maybe something like this,



or something like that??
(or maybe the 2nd NIC in the DIY router is the wifi adapter,which means DIY router + wifi adapter is in 1 box)

I'm noob in this networking stuff?? But I'm very interested in networking my home...

erm.. I do not really understand here.. Let me try to get you..
Is is what you are trying to say is,

1) 1st NIC is connected to internet
2) 2nd NIC is acctually a somesort of PCI wireless access card(does this exist??)

OR can be drawn like this,



you quoted, If your card support hostap, are you refering to NIC card?

sorry for the noobness.. It just that I got a picture in my mind but not sure on how to do it in real life..

thanks.. that means this DIY router can be made into DIY wireless router also..

yo..

got my old pc and have successfully setup ipcop on my machine with

233 Mhz
32MB EDO ram
2G HD



I did it yesterday nite and it took me ard 1 hrs from slotting the NIC card to successfully install and connect to net.

Here is what i want to ask. How to telnet into the server? using which port? I'm using putty. Tried yesterday but cant connect? any clues

thanks angeldothack. It worked like a charm

now is there a way to limit the banwidth for certain PC in the network? once my housemate start downloading stuff, the whole internet connection becomes inaccessible..

I would like to read the ipcop site. But i'm too bz nowadays, in fact i just reach home now!! So looking around here seeking some short cuts

my joy short lived... now i cant boot up old comp!!! the screen went blank when booting halfway
i'm bek to my zte modem with router mode.

sigh......

well found out that the fault is due to power supply... Imagine a power supply that is 10yr old!! I dont think that ppl will sell this kind of power supply anymore....

syyang85, seems like pfsense need higher end pc.. I dont think my 32mb ram able to support it..

Hi to all,

I'm bek after missing for sometime. anyway i got another comp. and install it with ipcop. Here is the spec,

Pentium 200Mhz
96MB ram
80GB hd

I've been using it for a week. and it work like a charm

I've did some reading and I'm planning to do 2 things.

1. BT server - meaning install the bit torrent client and download files using the server and not using my laptop

2. File server - Samba maybe?

but there is some concerns, will my pc spec able to support all this?? will it hang or become slow?

What web torrent client should i use? torrentflux? or there is a better client?

well i dont think i can test out the BT server thing in the coming weeks. If you know what i mean.